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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Scorpions Scorpions Scorpions

I started digitally sculpting as a freelancer in 2001.

Ed Pugh, of Reaper Miniatures, recruited me to help with their new CAV mecha game.

One of the initial sculpts was the Borsig-Spline Scorpion, a mean little scuttler.

Fast forward a couple years, and I was designing a larger version of the Scorpion CAV for my licensed line of 1/60th scale (28mm Tabletop) metal and resin CAV kits under the Hellion Productions label.

Here are some new renders of that beauty...

It was a multi-part kit with a lot of articulation. Each of those legs could twist off for storage, and the turret was able to elevate and traverse. There was also a full detailed cockpit with flip-top canopy.

It was the victim of cruddy casting, and the guy never returned my master. It broke my venture into retail, but it made me focus on freelance sculpting. Hard lesson learned.

Matt, the CAVBoss at the time, wanted to make a tabletop 1/160th scale version of the resin kit, like we did with the resin 1/60th Dictator, which became the '70 Dictator. Alas, CAV was fading away, and the plan fell through.

Many years later, I was approached by Bob Mervine to sculpt a neo-steampunk Spider and Scorpion, among other mechanical animals. They were for a 1/300th scale (Epic Tabletop) game he had in the works called WildFire.